Actual rating: 2.5 stars

This was a very highly anticipated book for me, but I ended up not liking it as much as I hoped! We follow a bunch of friends that go to a prestigious school and try to figure out what actually happened to one of their friends who was murdered a few years back.

I think my most lasting impression after finishing this, is that I would wish it was a movie or maybe, that it felt like one of those movies, teen girls would watch at a sleepover.

Overall I think it was quite predictable, I was between trying to decide between two people as to who actually committed the murder and one of them actually was the murderer. When the reveal happened, I felt a small satisfaction regarding my prediction of the murderer, but the reason behind the crime wasn't one I found too valid, it felt like a poor "excuse" in a way.

One think I really loved though, was the school setting, I'm a huge fan of books that take place in elaborate schools or academies and this book really fuelled my imagination on that aspect.

All in all, "They Wish they Were Us" is a fun book, a book I wouldn't take too seriously and a story that I would love to see become a movie, purely for the outrageous, yet so fun, events that are happening!